Background
Skirboll, Lana R. was born on December 7, 1948 in Baltimore.
Federal health policy director
Skirboll, Lana R. was born on December 7, 1948 in Baltimore.
Bachelor, New York University, 1970; Master of Science in Zoology and Physiology, Miami University, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology, Georgetown University, 1977.
Postdoctoral training in psychiatry and pharmacology Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1977-1979. Visiting scientist department histology and neurobiology Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1979-1981. Chief electrophysiology unit National Institute of Mental Health, 1981—1986.
Deputy science advisor Alcohol Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, 1986—1988, executive assistant to administrator, 1989-1991, associate administrator for science, 1990—1992. Director office of science policy and program planning National Institute of Mental Health, 1992-1995, 95—. Consultant Center Environmental Health and Human Toxicology, 1985-1987.
Author: Pharmacology of Biochemical Behavior, 1988, Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Methods II: 1981-1986, 1990, (with T. Hokfelt, G. Foster, O. Johannsson et alCentral Phenylethanolamine N-Methyltransferase Immunoreactive Neurons: Distribution Projections, Fine Structure, Ontogeny and Co-Existing Peptides, 1988, (with G.Stoner, S. Werkman, D. Hommer) Effects of Caffeine on the Substania Nigra, Biological Psychiatry, 1988, (with J.A. Stivers, R. Long, J. Crawley) Anatomical Analysis of Frontal Cortex Sites at Which Carbachol Induces Moteor Seizures in the Rat, (with T. Hokfelt, B. Robertson) Retrograde Flourescent Tracers with Immunohistochemistry, (with M. Palkovits, E. Mezey, T. Hokfelt) Adrenergic Projections from the Lower Brainstem to the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus, the Lateral Hypothalamic Area and the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala in Rats, volunteer 1020, 1992.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College Neuropsychopharmacology (Mead Johnson award), New York Academy of Sciences, National Committee Education (Potomac chapter president 1988-1989), European Neurosci. Society, Society Neurosci.
Married Leonard Taylor, February 19, 1986; 2 children.